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Show THE DIXIE OWL your happiest moments THE DIXIE OWL Itiblished Monthly by the Students of the Dixie Normal College Subscription rates: Students Free; Others 75c a Year EDITORIAL Elizabeth Snow STAFF Editor Crawford Houston, Assistant Editor Glen Snow. Business Manager Vilate Roundy Literary Marion Miller Local and Society Maurine Whipple Fun and and Lida Cox Philosophy Frank Crosby Athletics Schuyler Moody Debating JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES One hears a good deal of talk in and around school about the social value of a high school education ; in fact it is often argued that three fourths of the value come from the social side 01 school life. This is true to a certain extent; school life does change a student. Youve all seen the process. The typical freshman comes to school the first time with a loppy hat cock- ed over one ear, long coat switch- ing around his knees, hair growing down on his coat collar, trousers rolled up about six inches revealing speckled socks above his tan button oxfords, hands that hang like hams from coat sleeves which are far too short. When a teacher asks him a question he looks for some place that he can sink into oblivion and live down his disgrace; but when he comes back a high and mighty junior no English cut shoes were ever more pointed than his, no pinch back coat ever fit tighter, no classy hat ever looked classier than his, and instead of crossing the street to avoid meeting a pretty girl, he will go clear around a block for the sole purpose of shaking her hand and saying, Hello, Kid, great to be back again isnt it. ? That alone is worth the time and effort spent in school, but after all isnt it the knowledge that you are doing good work in your classes that bring you the most satisfaction ? Havent notify all others of their inordinate vainness, marks the individ- been when you got back an examination paper with an A on it, or when a teacher has given you a wbrd of praise? It isnt necessary to grind all the time to be a good student, if you really apply your self while you are studying. This is often times difficult but there is a solution and that is to schedule your work. Do it today ; sit down as soon as you finish reading this Owl and work out a plan. Decide what time you will get up in the morning, what hours you will get your meals, what time you will prepare each of your lessons for the following day what time you will use for recreation and what time you will go to bed. Next select a place' to study and when you go there don't let anything disturb vou until you have finished what you went there to do. Of course if the house catches on fire, or the cow gets into the cabbage patch you need not finish working a problem or reading a chapter before going to the rescue, but dont let anything short of a catastrophe disturb you. Now take a word of warning, dont make it too hard to live up to or you will soon have it all thrown away, but make it easy and then live up to it. ual as megalomaniac. All is stall stuff, subtle their talk a and sly, diverting as they think, attention from their own exalted opinion of themselves. They are shrunken of soul, and have a mind, or should one say, a conglomerate frothy emulsion of concentrated ignorance slightly flattened at the poles, that reeks and seethes with egomania. Their self esteem is raised to the ninth power, they elect themselves the It of the civilized world and spell I and Me, in capital italics. Why is it that, every time some people approach a mirror, they acknowledge their own superiority with a low bow? In lieu of a mirror a glass door or window will do. Why have certain persons made a three base hit with themselves from the very first? Nature is either very kind or extremely cruel. Characters of this type are, swollen, like a drowned pup, with a pride that stinks. They nominate themselves the glass of fashion and the mold of form, they sit behind you in the show and mutter witty subtitles. They go around with the (not on your plebian hoof on my pratric-ia- n sole) attitude, you all know the type. All such persons are congener to each other in There is only one operation that will cure the disease and that cephalotomy. We can do no less than agree with Mr. Gillilan that Egotism . ac-tio- EGOTISM Egotism is a sort of sarcoma of the mind, that eats and gnaws all the spontaneity out of an individual. Its different modes of expression are legion, the tone of voice, the glance of the eye, the angle-othe hat or cigar, all are telltale symptoms, of the malady. The persistant belief, that all other persons are oozing with conceit and the innuendoes of other peoples vanity, is the first symptom of paranoia. In thinking that they are preordained to f is the anesthesia administered by nature to deaden the cephalal-g- y of inferiority. W. W. M. president can stop all strikes, matches must strike. No The man in love with himself seldom has a rival. |